Japan's prime minister, Yoshihiko Noda, has announced that the Fukushima nuclear site finally stabilised, 280 days after the earthquake and tsunami that damaged it, along with a large part of Japan. Even though a "cold shutdown" has been achieve, it will still take a long time - probably decades, maybe up to 40 years - to fully dismantle the plant because of very strict safety procedures.There is still a 12 miles (20 kilometers) exclusion zone around the plant. "The nuclear reactors have reached a state of cold shutdown and therefore we can now confirm that we have come to the end of the accident phase of the actual reactors," Mr Noda told a news conference. "We are now moving from trying to stabilise the nuclear reactors to decommissioning them. "The Japanese government promises to clarify the roadmap from here and do our utmost, while ensuring we operate the nuclear reac...